LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 317, 26 March 1875, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

i2fFroin our own correspondent.)

March If. • 11 is. somewhat of a pleasure to have to re- . port the . discovery of two proniiait.g quar's! reel's in fliis district .during ..the past week -oi:e at the head cf the aid Twelve-Aiiie Arrow (officially thf liichburu;, (lie others on the range-south of the JCawarau K-iver, ;:e.»r G-ibbsLowfi, Ih bJth of these locr-litics good reefs have-' been proved- to isist-' ky-(specimens found plenii: ully'iik- the neighborhood. Scarcity: of' timber has hitherto deitr>cd minors from Irving to do any thing with them ; how. ever, the ice ia broken, now ky-the action of Mi\ Hall and. party,.who huve applied ior A | prospecting claim near Macetowii, un,l fcy brothers Cosgrove, of I£:iv>;irau,-w]it» are feparteri to have--fouh«"S tTcli're&f near Gi'obs- , town. As I have seen good specimens from localities ma~<y limes, I feel sanguine that the I. dawn of better.times is at hand-ior "W'akalip distriet,__as regards. .it* .chief.,industry. All we w ant is roaiii« ?o .thiii the means necessary : tor tlio wofk caii ■ be got- to l-lie placts wliers they are required, and 1 believe ..ho Provmcak authorities hare alreadv signiiled fcheif willingness to subsidise £L for >£L. Perhaps they may have.the gra:e* to-see that it would t»a worth the other half to' give the impetus to the industry which roads would effectYour exchange* will' haroffurnished toU with the particulars of a case of infanticide whidh has -Ijeen /brought io light at Arrowtown. Therie was an inque.-t on the remains and a venit't WjlfuiJVlurcier " wus_j-e" turned against the unknown perpetrator of the prime.' ; brevity oTrsuih S subject; The-train of thought, is so horrify'og iu t.ie picture which it calls ip M at I avoid (ho details p.Ui'posiily. Ja eavenheip fhe vweherl blood-stained maniac whose tortured r-.n'nd h'-s to bear 'he remembrance Si- a' crime at once so hor ible and sj tiiiri-itural. . -Mr. H. SJjwidcrs, l£tqr;; addresseda, meeting oi electors called without- r.uiiee i* - the-Arrow. Library: ,uh £*rid»K- evening last l/buf-sajhe mrettng wj>B.'.rineii<?, ftp the pur' [■' rose of a:eiirtainii.g the wishes of this' electors I of /works, there not much interest to report, it ..bWn ». !iri», v Ai) i 11.:,. VLT. Msn-L-iv Mtn .I.o;udd*ess a ineetiDg, no doubt hi a s-udi-juos wGiild been larger.

'' j ■' &eUrt<%loctnr. • . , . f /r' '*> AN IMMIGRANT'S BETTER. - ' ' b. .■•'jßeotiCMisa Martha Totter, Housemaid. • Beav Susait, Italic up raj' pen just to' write'' These few lines as tho'mail ;aileaving to;dav;,/ , r * •Winch.' I hope all are well down at Biddicurrr *Bight, ; ■, , i ' As it'teavea rtio at present I'm happy to say . Oh! Sulcey, Ud-sure you come oht by next ship, ... „ ; ; For this'is a sensible'sort of a,place,' No missus out here dares to screw or nip, 1 * And going to service ain't,.thought a disgrace. Pngracel J sho.uld think not;', why,- Susan my dear, J ,U. • ' J Domestics -.out * here', meet with (proper re- , speofc, . ■. > • •■. >-£'* ' - We move in a very.superior spear,' And leave if the neighborhood isn't select.: i Why, only last week a fine ladycame downy And begged very'hard'that I'd come as her cook; _ . 4 . ! r But, .'.Stfk'e, when she mentioned she lived out «of town, - \ f ■ ■' . - 'Twould a taken a hartist to picter mylouk." •"* ". r -r ']■' Now, Susan, old girl, don't you make a' niis-. take, ... '; " " : ' And .slave along thore t'other side- of the hearth, ;■ . . .■. ; j* As soon as you can, sich hard labor forsake, And come to a land where they value your worth., But master is waiting to take this to town, So, Sulcey, good-bye —do como over the ■. wavc3; For o very thing here is just turned upside down, : , ■ And servants arc lad ies and missuses slaves. —' S. A. Register.'